Today I have a treat for you! Well, I actually have three (3) treats that are going to help you in some practical ways. First, there is a new service that helps match employers with job seekers in a wonderfully efficient way. Second, some new tools let you stay productive when your cell phone needs a little boost. And third, you’ll hear about a fabulous audio product so you can chill out, listen to great quality audio and relax.

Realmatch.Com Connects

Finding a job is always a challenge. Today it is even more challenging. If you are in the market for a job, you can leverage the power of a new technology at a site called Real Match (www.RealMatch.com) that helps job seekers meet employers.

One of the technologies deployed is a real-time match. As services are updated and new resumes are added, an employer will receive updated information. This is good for job seekers as you know employers will see your details quickly.

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For the employer this is a good service as you find skill sets that can match the job you have available. You can get very specific with what you need and the background of people who are available.

You can find out more at www.Realmatch.com. Also, you’ll want to check out the special video interview I did with Rafael Cosentino, the VP of Business Development at RealMatch.com. In that interview he shared even more about the service and what they can do for you. See the video at: http://tinyurl.com/bk4dby

Charge Phone And Laptop With Lenmar Technology

If you use an Apple iPHone, a Blackberry or other portable cell phone, you need battery power backup. Right when you have that important call to a potential client or colleague, you don’t want to run out of battery power.

Lenmar is a company that provides solutions for battery power regularly. With these new tools to power most Windows laptops, iPhones, Blackberries and other portable devices it is worth a look. This kind of power can help you get the extra life you need when those busy days happen and you have to keep going.

For a detailed video which shows you what is available and how the batteries work, go to: http://tinyurl.com/ark9bf

Brilliant, Engulfing Sound To Chill Out From Orbitsound

Sometimes after those long, hard days, you need the option of relaxing and chilling out. Brilliant, soothing audio sound that bathes you in luxurious sounds is sometimes a great prescription. When you can get a portable system that is reasonably priced, that is even better.

I’ve written before about OrbitSound and their T3 portable audio player. I still use that tiny audio speaker today to hear breath-taking sound from a hotel room or other places. Now the company has outdone themselves with the new T12 unit for home or office.

The T12 Spatial Stereo Soundbar Dock from OrbitSound consists of two untis, a subwoofer and a main unit with three speakers and access to your iPod or iPhone. I’ve tried both my iPod and iPhone in it and the sound coming from the speakers was unbelievable. It is rich, clear and crisp. When you couple your iPod or iPhone music with the T12 you get an engulfing experience that surrounds you with relaxing, or energizing sound.

This unit would also be good for the conference room to play training videos, audios and to be used in regular sales meetings. This can give you the advantage over the competition to learn specific sales-generating concepts.

Of course, it can go well when it is time to relax. I’ve found the T12 goes very well with a nice glass of vodka, but I’m sure it works with the beverage of your choice! Hey, you can also use it with your home theater for dramatic real-world sounds in this incredibly small unit.

Check it out at http://www.orbitsound.com/products/t12/overview.aspx

The company is based in England but has US distribution. The latest check I did put the price at $478 but with the dollar fluctuating so much these days, check on the current price to be sure.

Copyright © 2009, Terry Brock and Achievement Systems, Inc. Terry Brock is an international marketing coach and professional speaker who helps businesses generate profitable results. He can be reached at 407-363-0505, by e-mail at terry@terrybrock.com or through his website at www.terrybrock.com. Join the Twitter adventure with Terry through his Twitter address: TerryBrock.

When you’re out on the road, you need the ability to keep making calls and using your laptop when batteries go out.

Lenmar is an exceptional company that provides batteries for charging your iPhone as well as your laptop computer (for most Windows computers). The batteries are small enough to carry with you easily and have that extra few hours of charge when you need them.

Watch this video to get the complete story. I shot this at the Consumer Electronics Show recently and got a good overview of what is available from Josh Goldberg, the VP of Marketing for Lenmar. This extra battery power let’s you keep communicating and connecting with customers even on those extra-long days.

Terry Brock
www.TerryBrock.com
www.Lenmar.com

Finding a job in today’s market just got easier for you. A new service is available which leverages technology to keep job seekers and employers connected. It is called Real Match and I was able to recently interview the VP of Business Development, Rafael Cosentino. Watch this video if you’re in the market for a job, or know of someone who is.

If you’re an employer looking for the ideal employee, this is also a good service to use. You are kept up to date with changes. Watch the video and enjoy!

Produced, Edited and Published by Terry Brock, Achievement Systems, Inc. Copyright (c) 2009. All Rights Reserved. Permission granted to republish on website with prior written notice.

Terry@TerryBrock.com
www.TerryBrock.com

Now We’re All Entrepreneurs

You have to think like an entrepreneur even if you (still) have a job with a large company.  Think Lehman Brothers.  Think GM,  Think State of California.  Ugh!  No job is permanent.  Those who plead and beg for this strange animal called “job security” need a good welcome to the 21st Century.

Today we are all entrepreneurs.  Well, we all have been for quite a while, but many didn’t realize it till they got the pink slip from their (former) employer informing them of the wonderful new opportunities that await them as an entrepreneur.

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There is no security in any job.  There is only security in your ability to embrace and deploy market-valuable skills so that you solve problems others have.  The more you can solve problems others have and satisfy their wants and needs, the more “security” you’ll have.

This is the way nature works.   The only way you get ahead is by providing value for others to meet their needs.  Always think in terms of what you can do for the other person.

This means that we all need to think like entrepreneurs.  If this type of thinking begins to take place with more and more people I believe our world will be a better place.

An entrepreneur will change practices quickly.  Success is realized when you can adapt to the ever-changing needs of the marketplace.  No job is secure because the marketplace keeps adjusting.  If you try to continue making buggy whips when the horseless carriage comes along your “job security” will fade quickly.

Yet, in the midst of that change, you can do better by thinking of your skills and strengths.  Let’s go back to my mythical buggy whip manufacturer.  If you made buggy whips at the dawn of the horseless carriage era you knew leather.  You knew how to mold that leather and make solid, long-lasting whips to motivate horses.

In an age of cars, that buggy whip won’t be as necessary.  However, you’ve learned how to work with leather and they use even more leather in cars (seats, steering wheels, dashboards, etc.).  By thinking of yourself as a professional in leather, and more than just a “buggy whip maker” you expand your market and would have an ample amount of work head.  Provide different leather products.  Don’t think of yourself in the “buggy whip” industry but in the “providing leather in many ways for customers” industry.

Think like an entrepreneur.  Be on the lookout for new trends.  We are in a decisive shift today.  The world is not like it was — even last year.  This is creating a lot of opportunities for those who can change their thinking, adapt and come up with market-valuable skills.

Yes, you will have to learn some new skills.  You’ll have to go back to “school” to improve.  It might not be a formal education (although I’m a huge fan of that) but it will require more reading, online courses, audio training, hiring coaches, etc. etc.  Do whatever it takes to learn new skills and then provide value in the marketplace.

Remember that an entrepreneur also has to develop “rhinoceros skin.”  I guarantee you will be turned down by potential customers.  I guarantee you will have set-backs.  Learn from these disappointments.  Write down your lessons in your personal journal.  Then adapt, change and get back in the game.

This is how successful people through the centuries overcame problems and the changes they faced.  You can do it also.  In fact, many people say they became much better and got a much better job after a disappointment or temporary setback.

As you learn to think like an entrepreneur, you will grab those skills needed and adjust.  Remember, there is no “job security” today. Actually, there never has been.  You have to create value each day for the marketplace to keep your job.  This means learning new skills continually, helping others and serving them and becoming more business-astute all the time.  Relationship Marketing is all about connecting with others and providing value.

Now is the time to aggressively embrace new opportunities and offers.  This is what being an entrepreneur is about.

Copyright © 2009, Terry Brock and Achievement Systems, Inc.  Terry Brock is an international marketing coach and professional speaker who helps businesses generate profitable results.  He can be reached at 407-363-0505, by e-mail at terry@terrybrock.com or through his website at www.terrybrock.com.  Join the Twitter adventure with Terry through his Twitter address: TerryBrock.

By Terry L. Brock

Here we go!  It is a great time for learning and discovering things that we never thought possible.  With these unconventional times we have to be willing to do things in unconventional ways.  This means a big shift in what we were doing, the skills we bring to the marketplace and even how we think.  These unconventional times call for unconventional tactics.

The good news is that we will be better in the long run for having “cleaned up” our style.  However, it won’t be easy.  Some will choose to give up rather than adapt.  However, Darwin was right that we have to adapt and change in order to survive.

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You know, times like these can be exhilarating as it brings out the best in us.  It forces us to draw from resources deep within.  We have to become better people and change.  You know that person you really wanted to become and the things you wanted to accomplish?  Now is a great time to begin anew and make it happen.

Here are some time-honored steps that can help you make real-world, practical change.

1.    Become Different And Better. Become the person that you really want to be and who the market is asking for.  Come on!  You know there are things you should do and you just never made it happen.  Be willing to pay the price now to make it work.  These are “cold water splashed in your face” times.  How you deal with it makes all the difference.  Take matters into your own hands to become the better person you know you really want to be and can become.  Make it happen.

2.    Crave Education. Think about it.  You are not going to get better unless you learn and acquire the skills to be the person you want to be.  This requires work.  It requires a craving, a longing for education and learning like never before.  Devour books.  Absorb educational audio and video.  Take the classes and seminars necessary.  Hire the coaches who can help you acquire new skills.  Pay whatever price is required to become a better, more fully-educated person.  I don’t necessarily mean formal education, although I’m a huge fan of that.  Get to know what is required and get to know your local library.  Getting the right education is no longer optional.  You have to go where the food is!

3.    Stop It Already! In order to bring the good into your life you have to eliminate those activities, habits and people which are holding you back. Turn off the TV!  Unplug your video games.  These mindless activities don’t contribute ultimately to you becoming a better person.  Replace that time with education and being around quality, life-enhancing people.  Think about what you can eliminate from your life that is holding you back. You only have 24 hours each day so you have to eliminate something to replace it with positive, income-enhancing possibilities. Think about those activities that aren’t helping you and put then into your own “Stop doing that!” category.

4.    Be Creative With Your Re-Creation. You shouldn’t eliminate recreation but you must carefully choose how you invest that time.  Instead of mindless TV, bathe your mind with quality, life-enhancing and uplifting quality music.  Spend quality time with wonderful people instead of watching silly actors on TV or emotionally wrenching news coverage.   Read classics.  There is a reason they are considered “classics” and that means it is worthy of the time to read them.  The best part is that this healthy recreation can be dirt-cheap.  A Sunday afternoon with the family by the lake, playing outside or other activity can cost next to nothing.  Yet, the results and benefits can be priceless.  Raise priceless to the power of “WOW!” when you do it with loved ones.

5.    Develop Persistent Optimism. I hear the cynics wailing about this now.  They think that optimism is merely a charade covering reality.  True optimism has a dogged-determination to find the good in whatever situation happens.  It is how things are accomplished.  How many cynics do you see who are really successful anyway?  Make it your purpose and commitment to face life as a “realistic optimist.”  Know what is happening and find a way to improve and make it better.

These steps will help you personally, which is the core for growing financially.  We are in unconventional times.  They call for doing things unconventionally.  Yet, we will prosper in business and personally when we embrace the time-honored principles of learning, growing, serving others and being persistently, pragmatically optimistic.  Look for ways to serve others and help them solve their pain and you will do very well yourself.  This is how our ancestors made it through their tough times.  It is how we will make it through whatever happens to us.

Copyright © 2009, Terry Brock and Achievement Systems, Inc.  Terry Brock is an international marketing coach and professional speaker who helps businesses generate profitable results.  He can be reached at 407-363-0505, by e-mail at terry@terrybrock.com or through his website at www.terrybrock.com.  Join the Twitter adventure with Terry through his Twitter address: TerryBrock.

Here’s a special audio for the podcast.  This message is for you to make it through in today’s challenging times.  Hey, you’ll use these principles in any economy and at any time.

Let me know what you think.  You can drop me an email at Terry@TerryBrock.com or leave a comment below. I look forward to hearing from you.

Terry

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By Terry L. Brock

Today is an excellent time to change your life for the better. It is a time when old ways of doing business are changing. Many are embracing the opportunities beyond searching for information, sending email messages and social networking. Many are embracing the Net as the main way to do business.
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Watch this Video as Terry Explains the 5 Key Steps to Build Your Business on the Net

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Building your business on the Net is like any other business — it requires proper research, hard work and diligence. In fact, building your existing business on the Net is a smart way to grow in any economy. Here are some steps you can use to either get started or to reposition your existing business so it excels on the Net.

1. Build Your Knowledge. If you were starting a retail store, you’d have to study the territory. Find out what exists and what others are doing. Look for gaps. A great way to do this on the Net is with a service like www.Wordtracker.com where you can find what people are looking for. Also Google Trends (www.google.com/trends) is a great tool to see what people are searching for lately. Your business should be the intersection of market demand and your expertise. Find the areas where people want something bad enough to pay serious, cold, crisp, curvaceous hard cash. Then match that with those areas of expertise you have or can acquire.

2. Build Your Site. Once you’ve discovered what your market niche is ready, willing and able to pay for, you need a place for them to visit to get their needs met. This is your website. Today many websites are Blogs. 2 places are available that make this easy for you to set up in 5-10 minutes — for free. One is www.Blogger.com (owned by Google) and the other is www.WordPress.com. Create a place where you provide essential and wanted information for your market niche. Don’t make it about you but about them and fulfilling their needs and wants.

3. Build a Better Site. This is where you need to think — and plan. Put in lots of tempting articles. If you have a garden site, articles about how to grow something better could be hot. If you’re selling sunglasses, think of ways you could explain the differences between the various UV ratings and what this means to customers. Find the confusion, the pain, the uncertainty that your niche is facing and address that. And be sure to use audio and video. Through services like www.YouTube.com, www.blip.tv and others, you can create video on the Net for free. Provide solid information that helps your niche solve problems and then offer products and services they can use. Fine-tune your copywriting skills as this is most important to convert visitors and lookers into those wonderful people we call —- buyers! Remember your goal is not to get a lot of visitors. That doesn’t really matter. What matters? Buyers who purchase your products. That is the goal toward which all your audio, video and copy should be directed.

4. Build a Community. Today we want a place where we feel at home and are welcome. We all want various “tribes” where we share common beliefs, values and have our needs met. Make your site like that. If you have a garden site, don’t just sell seeds and garden tools. Concentrate on how gardeners can share ideas and information about what works and their experiences. People will come back for compelling information. Have a Blog that discusses relevant, compelling topics. Provide interviews (audio and video) with industry experts. Make your site a place where enthusiasts in your niche gravitate. Once they are visiting, provide multiple ways for them to become happily involved with you, your products and services.

5. Build Business. Remember, all your efforts revolve around making a profit and building a solid, profitable, sustainable business. In an age of Blogs, Podcasts, Video on the Net, Audio on the Net, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn (and a host of other good social networking sites) along with all the other stuff, it is imperative to remember this is about business. Have a solid foundation of the principles of building a business that meets the needs of your market niche. Keep renewing and changing as needs and demands change. It is never over. This is the challenge and the excitement about doing business on the Internet.

Building your business on the Net requires many of the same skills required to build a business offline. Today you can do it for a lot less initial capital and can compete effectively with more well-heeled competitors. On the Net, it doesn’t matter if you are a one-person start-up or a multi-billion dollar corporation. Satisfying the needs of your customers and fulfilling their wants is the core of making it work.

Today many have found that there is no such thing as job security when someone else controls your paycheck. You can be let go at any moment regardless of how long you’ve been there. Your only security comes in your ability to acquire and implement market-valuable skills in a profitable way. Once you master these necessary skills on the Net, the sky is the limit for you. A lifestyle of operating from anywhere, choosing your own hours and dealing with the people you want awaits.

Many are living that lifestyle now. If this is right for you, pursue your dream with passion and acquire the skills and expertise to make it happen. This is not just about building your business — it is about building the life you want.

Copyright © 2009, Terry Brock and Achievement Systems, Inc. Terry Brock is an international marketing coach and professional speaker who helps businesses generate profitable results. He can be reached at 407-363-0505, by e-mail at terry@terrybrock.com or through his website at www.terrybrock.com. Twitter address: TerryBrock.

Bonus for You!  Watch this short presentation where Terry describes the kind of thinking that is necessary to succeed on the Net and in today’s fast-paced world.  This is a must-see for achieving success in a world of never-ending “new” today.